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| 09:00 Ready to go. Contest starts at 16:00. |
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| I was alone on the contest (Single Op.). I got notices that Igor had to go on interview and Mome had to go for extraordinary work on Saturday. |
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| Arrived at 11:30. Car unloaded in 15 minutes. |
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| Useful boxes from albanian market. 2-3 EUR based on their sizes. |
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| Antennas are still standing. SWRs at 144.300 are 1:1.1 for each. |
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| 12:30 The shack is almost ready. Where to place the PAs? |
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| Antenna maintenance: 1 week before. Relay box + 2 x preamp. (PA3BIY) for the 2 groups of 4x6 el. DK7ZB YAGIs. |
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| Right: relay control box. Left: RX switch. TX was on both groups (900W + 80W), RX was on the selected group. |
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| My cables in parallel with GSM cables. |
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| 6 el. DK7ZB YAGI. 2.60m boom version. |
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| ASL: 1326+25m. North view. The peak in front is on the same level, 1350 meters. |
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| View downwards. |
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| I noticed that during 4 years (2004-2008) I had no pictures on tower about me (since I made the pics with the camera). Pic. to prove that I was on the tower. |
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| Left: FT847+Javornik Right: Control boxes for the 2 rotators + RX1-RX2 switch. I had no time to adjust rotator reading: so I had to add 130 for the East reading + I had to deduct 20 for the West reading. |
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| Cable entrance. |
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| FT1000MP MKV was under repair, so I used FT847. FT847 TX is not open. My IF was on 14MHz, so my max. upper freq. was 144350.0 ... |
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| New idea: driver PA was on the front seat. Due to final PA input limit (80-90W), the driver PA was on low profile (160W). |
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| Driver PA (GI46B) with 160W. |
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| Hybrid ring splitter on the driver PA: 160W was divided to 2x80W. 1st leg was connected to kW PA while the 2nd leg directly to the East group. |
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| The camp.
Left: warehouse for boxes.
Right: sleeping suite. |
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| Managed to finish installation at 16:45 (in 5 hours, alone) |
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| Power for the West antenna group. |
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| RX switch POS1->East group, POS2->West group. LEDs were in series connection with control. During the night POS2 LED burnt out. 10 min. fault clearance: change from POS2->POS3. In an hour the same problem on POS3 LED. 10 min. fault clearance: bypassing the LED, no LED feedback on position anymore. |
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| I hoped for bigger activity. Final result: 153 QSO. 1 new DXCC (TA). |
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| 17:30 Dismantling "downstairs" is nearly ready. |
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| Uploading the car. Cables from the tower comes later. |
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| Back seats utilized. |
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| Warehouse is also dismantled. |
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| Let's start dismantling the cabling on the tower. |
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| Since - most probably - this was my last VHF contest from Z3, I dismantled the full cabling (except rotator controls). |
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| 21:00 Dismantling work finished (in 5 hours - alone). Ready to go back. |
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